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I ran across this entry when I was googling [いっぺんしんでみる?] (ippen shinde miru).

The first video is accurate. Akira is not a good "starter anime", and should not be shown to people who don't have a foreknowledge of anime. To be frank, the Akira movie is crap. The original story spans across four thick tankōbon, and was heavily edited for time. Unless you read the manga, you wouldn't understand a large portion of Akira... and he didn't. Having been soured on something he couldn't understand, he was then exposed to Naruto, another epic failure of an anime. So yes. It's fine to hate anime when you're exposed only to such terrible examples of it.

of course we have to read the subtitles to know the stories

You don't have to read subtitles. No one's putting a gun to your head and telling you to read them. you can learn japanese. Not hard to do if you're inclined.

there's some reasons animes is called animes and not cartoons.

Yes. Because [アニメ] (anime) is a loanword from the US. It's short for... animation. Guess what cartoons are? animation. So yes, アニメ is synonymous with "cartoon".